It's not only an anthropological issue, but worth mentioning anyway. There is a Weblog for this movement, shortly FOS, that reports everything about this topic. What's their goal? "Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet and making it available to readers free of charge. Removing the barriers to serious research."

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More than 500 years after Columbus old world and new world is going to shake hands again, but this time without one party using any kind of vehicle. "In a technological first, they will use pencil-like devices called phantoms to recreate the sense of touch across the Atlantic, organizers of the experiment said."

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Years ago, at the very beginning of my "journeys into cyberspace", I was quite careless with my e-mail address. As a result I became the target of junk-mails, spam-mails and what you have. Meanwhile I've got a powerful firewall and filter which kicks all of them into killfile-oblivion. Only two categories of junk-mails still manage to sneak through: A heap of advertisement from Korea (Which I can't even read -- the bot ignores the most obvious of all 'cultural borders', the language-barrier-reef. 'Cause of that those advertisements vanish into oblivion, too.) and mails from Nigeria which promise midean fortunes to me ... and others. My poor old e-mail address (which I still keep for nostalgia's sake and as a default-option) has fallen prey to the Nigerian-Connection's search-bot.

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